Books
10 steps to cross-cultural service.
Bacon, Daniel W. Equipping for Missions by / OMF
Borthwick, Paul A Mind for Missions: 10 Ways to Build Your World Vision
Escobar, Samuel The New Global Mission: The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone (good intro to missions)
Fowler, Sandra & Monica Mumford Intercultural Sourcebook: Cross-Cultural Training Methods Vol. 1 Intercultural Press 248 pp. (for trainers)
Hale, Thomas On Being a Missionary, William Carey Library
Harley, David C. Preparing to Serve: Training for Cross-Cultural Mission. . Pasadena, California: William Carey Library, 1995.
Hicks, Kathy Scaling the Wall, Gabriel Resources, 2003
Hoke, Steve and William Taylor. Send Me! , William Carey Library
Lewis, Jonathan. Working Your Way to the Nations
Missionary Preparation Handbook from Moody Church available at: www.moodychurch.org
Pirolo, Neal. Serving As Senders
Taylor, William D. Too Valuable to Lose: Exploring the Causes and Cures of Missionary Attrition. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1997. (for what should be included in training FREE download at WEA below)
Woodberry, J. Dudley, et al. Missiological Education for the 21st Century. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997.
Other helpful books on missionary training
Internationalizing Missionary Training: A Global Perspective (William D. Taylor (ed) Paternoster Press, UK; Baker Book House, USA, 1991), was the Mission Commission‘s initial contribution to what would become six books on missionary training. This emerged from a key meeting in Manila 1989 of 60 experienced mission workers gathered to discuss improvements in missionary training. This book aims to assist churches, mission organizations and missionary training centers in creating relevant and contextualized training materials. A new global stage was set for missionary training; models of equipping-training were presented, coming from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and the USA. In this revitalized, multi-cultural network, a diversity of voices grappled with some of the critical issues affecting missionary training around the world. Click herefor a pdf copy of the English book. The book was adapted into Spanish and Portuguese contexts and published as the first work dedicated to missionary training.
The World Directory of Missionary Training Programmes by Dr. Raymond Windsor (ed), (WEA Missions-Commission-William Carey, 1991, 1995) catalogued over 500 missionary training programmes from around the world. This became a useful networking tool for start-up directors who could find encouragement and counsel from colleagues from around the world.This is now part of the Evangelical Training Directory.
Preparing to Serve: Training for Cross-Cultural Mission by C. David Harley (WEA-Missions Commission–William Carey, 1995), provides a comprehensive introduction to cross-cultural missionary training. It examines a wide range of topics related to the task of training missionaries seriously, from the setting up of a new programme to the selection of missionary candidates and those who train them. It also considers how to plan a curriculum to train the whole person, and how to related training to culture. Click here for the English pdf. Portuguese. Spanish.
Too Valuable to Lose – Exploring the Causes and Cures of Missionary Attrition. This book is based on the Missions Commission’s 1994-1997 study on missionary attrition. It includes a summary report on the study and a systematic treatment of missions sending and supervising structures in relation to attrition. Authors from around the world discuss how to prevent attrition from their cultural perspective. Together, they present a wealth of wisdom and insight into this critically important aspect of cross-cultural ministry. View the book online here.
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